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Tateidae Tateidae is a family of very small and minute aquatic snails with an operculum, gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Truncatelloidea.Bouchet, P. (2014). Tateidae Thiele, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.ma ...

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Species

Species within the genus ''Heterocyclus'' include: *'' Heterocyclus perroquini'' (

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, 1872) ;Synonyms: *''Heterocyclus petiti'' (

, 1872): synonym of '' Heterocyclus perroquini'' Crosse, 1872

References

* Lydeard, C. & Cummings, K. S. (eds). (2019). Freshwater mollusks of the world: A distribution atlas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 256 pp

External links

Crosse H. (1872). Diagnoses molluscorum Novae Caledonae incolarum. Journal de Conchyliologie. 20(2): 154-157.

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